Ho Ch'i-fang (1910-), poet, journalist, and literary critic, was a prize-winning poet in his youth and an admirer of Western literature. He later became a leading figure in the Chinese Communist cultural hierarchy and a close associate of Chou Yang (q.v.). Little is known about Ho Ch'i-fang's family or early life except that he was […]

Feng Chih (1906-), poet, essayist, and professor of German literature. He was one of the most respected poets of the late republican period. Famous for his translations of Rainer Maria Rilke and for his own lyrics in sonnet form, Feng repudiated both after 1949 to become a practitioner of patriotic verse and an ardent and […]